Saturday Learning Series - The Feynman Lectures (Part 1)

If you watch the Big Bang Theory, you may recall they reference Richard Feynman a few times.  For example, here.

They also mention his lectures.  Richard Feynman was a theoretical physicist and he gave some lectures on physics that were simultaneously understandable while being not too general in nature to be uninformative.  This is one of part of those lectures in which Feynman focuses on the Law of Gravitation.

Getting around intrusive government

A video from Reason TV in an interview with author Jeffery Tucker on digital media on the idea of getting around intrusive government.

Executive overkill

Everyone knows to take anything that Joe Biden says with a large dose of salt.  He talks out of his posterior more often than not.  But there's no reason to believe that he pulled this number out of the ether and decided to run with it.

The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

19 executive orders on gun control.  Regardless of the constitutionality of the move, regardless of the lack of sensibility of the move, the telling thing is that number.  One executive order would't do? Executive overkill is expected from this batch of liberal miscreants. 2700 pages of health care bill has ballooned into tens of thousands of pages of bureaucratic overlay.  Why produce something simple when something convoluted, unnecessarily complicated and susceptible to easy manipulation and fraud is possible?

We should expect no less than 19 executive orders on guns from this president and his cabal of social engineers.

Saturday Learning Series - The Art of War

Sun Tsu's The Art of War as told by the History Channel. His treatise on battle are fundamental to not just war, but other areas of life as well.

Jack Lew is almost perfect for Treasury Secretary

President Obama has nominated Jack Lew as the replacement for Tim Geithner as the Secretary of the Treasury.  Jack Lew, an Obama appointee is bound to be a disappointment but for this administration, at this time, he's almost perfect for the job simply because of his grade-school signature that everyone is mocking.

The reason is simple.  As secretary, his name will go on the currency and as you can see in the photo, his name contains almost enough zeroes to represent the annual budget deficit. I count 9 zeroes.  Put a 1 in front of it and that's a billion.  Only three more zeroes and his name would look like the tail end of a trillion.

Almost perfect for the Obama deficits, but as in all things Obama, just a bit short of reality.

If it weren't so sad, it'd be funny.

Lesson: Obamacare exemptions applied selectively

Obamacare exemptions are granted by executive fiat apparently.  So the lesson is to um, be compliant and subservient to the executive branch, forever and always?

At 42 seconds into this video, it's mentioned that Obamacare only exempts religious organizations, which Hobby Lobby is clearly not. The selective application of who gets exempted based on friendliness to the administration is superseded by the glaring inaccuracy of the reporting.  Plenty of non-religious organizations have been given exemptions (Hat Tip via FreeRepublic).